'South Park' Returns With New Target, and Other Cartoons

Plus music from Nick Lowe, Diana Krall and Diane Keaton.

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And now, heeeeerrrrre’s Jimmy.

South Park returned from another two-week break last night with blatant and surprising mockery of Pay Pay/Palantir founder, and key Trump backer, Peter Thiel. During the episode ‘Twisted Christian‘ Thiel visits South Park to preach against the “satanic numerology shit” going on at the school, as the kids joke about the numbers six and seven (an actual phenomena taking over schools recently). We’ll let Deadline take it from here:

“I’m Peter Thiel and I know about the anti-Christ,” he declares in the assembly after his own theme song states the same intro, a nod to the tech billionaire’s recent lectures on armageddon and the possible identity of the antichrist.

According to Thiel’s South Park lecture, the end of the world will happen in six to seven days, as predicted by Revelation 6:7. His obsession with the numbers results in Thiel turning South Park into a surveillance state and commandeering all the students’ data to compile a list of cultists.

“Wait, why is there a camera in the girls bathroom?” asks Jesus, to which Thiel declares: “To stop the anti-Christ!”

Here a clip of his intro, with more digs at Trump’s penis….

For our musical set, first, yes, Nick Lowe this week is still asking in the song he penned 50 years ago, “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Leave and Understanding?”

Diane Keaton from “Radio Days” claims “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To.”

And our seasonal pick, Diana Krall’s “Autumn in New York” (we’ll be there again next week).

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner:

Another from Jack Ohman, who is on fire this week:

If you’ve seen the leaked emails: JD Vance says they were just kids fooling around. They were all in there 20s and 30s and most were not fooling:

Photo Finish

Continuing my new daily feature, from my camera to you, let me know what you think, today: San Francisco de Asis Church, Taos, NM (immortalized in images by Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand and others).